The QualitEE Project

An overview of the challenges and solutions

The Project

Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the QualitEE project aims to increase investment in energy efficiency services in the building sector within the EU and improve trust in service providers. This will be achieved by developing quality assessment criteria and implementing quality assurance schemes.

The QualitEE consortium comprises 12 partner organisations covering 18 European countries, an expert advisory board including the European standards body CEN/CENELEC, and 59 supporters from major financial institutions, government bodies, trade associations and certification bodies.

The Challenge

The European Union has recently set a binding energy efficiency target of 27% by 2030, yet it has identified that there is currently insufficient investment in energy efficiency from energy users and financial institutions to achieve this target.

Energy efficiency services are expected to make a key contribution to the achievement of targets in public, commercial and large residential buildings.

Difficult for financial institutions to aggregate into large funds to access cost effective finance

Energy efficiency services are complex causing…

Difficulty in assessing technical risk, leading to hesitation in investment decisions

High due diligence costs that harm the investment case

Financial institutions receive too much irrelevant information

The Solution

QualitEE builds upon the Transparense project, which established the European Code of Conduct for Energy Performance Contracting in 2014. Signed by over 200 EPC providers and facilitators, the code defines the basic values and principles that are considered fundamental for EPC projects and represents an important first step to increasing transparency and trust for these services.

However, the code does not provide the assessment criteria or verification procedures that are required to enforce the quality of EPC. The QualitEE project looks to address this, whilst broadening the scope to include a wider range of energy efficiency services.

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The QualitEE project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 754017. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.